The contributions that Captain Alden Partridge made to the United States Military Academy have been greatly overshadowed by the court-martial and his subsequent relief as superintendent in 1817. Despite the negative undertone surrounding his time...

When the United States Military Academy was officially established at West Point in 1802, it was expected that the institution would supply the country with engineers for civil as well as military purposes.

Alden Partridge was one of the most infamous, misunderstood, and controversial figures of his day. Officially listed as the third superintendent of West Point, history has been neither kind to his memory nor accurate in its depiction of the...